Art in Public Places

Mission Statement

The purpose of Woodward's Visual Arts Commission is to add to the city's beauty and our quality of life by providing a means for the selection, display and maintenance of art in the City of Woodward's "Art In Public Places" collection and to acquire by purchase or donation additional works of art.

Forever Remember- May 30, 2013

Artist: Dennis Smith

Donated By: The American Legion Post 19, Founded July 13, 1919 and the City of Woodward's Visual Arts Commission to honor those who lost loved ones while serving their country in the United States Military and must live the rest of their lives with the consequences of war.

Donated to:
The City of Woodward’s Visual Arts Commission by Michelle Murray.

In memory of her grandparents Jean & Cecil Reynolds. This bell sculpture contains 4 great pieces of slag glass.

Every 6 months the huge kiln in a West Virginia glass factory is shut down and the waste glass that has built up on the walls is removed and sold as glass for art and home décor. The long steel fence posts were reclaimed cobble (mistakes) in the steel mill where Doug was employed from 1980 to 2010. He was able to acquire select pieces of this for his all recycled sculptures.

This bell has a fantastic low pure tone and has a large discarded steel circle that surrounds dark green slag glass! It all rests on an old well-worn farm disc blade.